Lives in Cricket No 4 - Ernie Jones

second day everything seemed to promise a big score. However, Jones was quick to show that the light workload agreed with him. From the outset he was intimidating and was no-balled twice in two overs for going outside the return crease. In the second instance he hit Fry’s middle stump and the ball went to the boundary, but Fry had made no attempt to play it. And an action by umpire Titchmarsh revealed that flamboyance by officials is not necessarily a modern phenomenon by ‘ostentatiously pointing to the crease to show the reason for his decision’ as The Times phrased it. Fry and W.G.Grace played beautiful cricket while they were together in adding 75 but, although Grace was caught behind off Noble, the crucial point of the innings came when Jones and Howell changed ends. Jones’ yorkers and pace were too much for the batsmen and he took three wickets for 15 runs from the tower end by bowling Fry, causing Gunn to cut a ball onto his off stump, and bowling Ranjitsinhji. Late in the innings Jones also bowled Storer and had Rhodes caught behind to finish with 5 for 88 out of The Great Fast Bowler: 1896-1899 44 The Australian side which toured England in 1899. Back row (l to r): B.J.Wardill (manager), A.E.Johns, J.J.Kelly (with egg), F.A.Iredale, F.J.Laver. Middle row: W.P.Howell, J.Darling (captain), E.Jones. Front row: J.Worrall, C.Hill, S.E.Gregory, C.E.McLeod, V.T.Trumper, M.A.Noble.